The Qur’an For All Humanity
Human Will
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HUMAN WILL
And We enjoined man (to show kindness) to his
parents, for with much pain his mother bears him,
and he is not weaned before he is two years of age.
We said: ‘Give thanks to Me and to your parents.
To Me shall all things return. But if they press you
to serve besides Me deities you know nothing of, do
not obey them. Be kind to them in this world, and
follow the path of those who turn to Me. To Me
you shall all return, and I will declare to you all
that you have done’.
(The Qur’an 31:14-15)
After God, a man’s parents are the ones to whom he
is most indebted. But where there is a clash between
what his parents desire from him and God’s will, he
must disregard the former in favour of the latter.
However, even then it is incumbent on him to
continue to serve his parents.
Man’s responsibility to his parents is to pay their
dues, to respect them, always to speak gently to
them, to fulfill their needs and to be of service to
them in the fullest sense of the word.
